the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is certainly not new to law. it has long been known in domestic law systems. however, for public international law the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is relatively new. since the early 1990s we have witnessed an indisputable proliferation of international courts and tribunals endowed with the jurisdiction to deal with certain areas of international law...

This book review asserts that Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement (”Cops Across Borders”) is the first book to attempt a systematic analysis of the role that the United States has played in the field of international law enforcement. For that reason, the book represents a major step forward in understanding this rapidly evolving area. While many people...

If sustainable development is about the integration of economic and environmental goals, then there seems to be a signiacant lack of integration between the preeminent global governance structures set up to manage trade and environment respectively. The international trade regime has evolved into one of the most powerful and inouential multilateral regimes in the world today in terms of its abi...

The eight Millennium Development Goals were proposed by the UN Secretary-General in 2001. They are goals with measurable targets to be achieved by 2015 or earlier. The Goals were distilled from the 2000 United Nations Millennium Declaration, a sweeping statement of development values, principles, objectives and proposed actions. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a demonstrab...

one of the issues that occur in most wars is captivating the enemy soldiers. international humanitarian law as a branch of contemporary islamic law from many years ago has focused on the treatment with prisoners. present comparative study in jus ad bellum shows that, the four 1949 geneva convention's and the 1977 additional protocols which compared with the islamic rules of international h...

•Where can I locate in the UK the most extensive collection of the current legislation for the Cayman Islands? • Which library has a comprehensive set of the World Trade Organisation International Trade Law Reports? •Where can I find verbatim debates on bills as they pass through the New Zealand House of Representatives? • Where are good collections of international environmental or commercial ...